Hairpin



D B. SHEFFEELD.

HAIRPIN.

APPLICATION FILED'JUNE 21,1917.

Paented Oct. 21, 1919.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL 3. SHEFFIELD, or VENICE, CALIFORNJA.

HAIRPIN.

T0 aZZ wlwm it may concem:

Be it knovvn that I, DANIEL B. SHEFFJELD, a citizen of United States,residing at Venice, in the county of Los Angeles, State of California,have invented certain new and use- ;ul Improvements in Hairpins; and Ido hereby declare the follovvin to be a full, clear, and exactdescription o the invention, such as vvill enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the saine.

This invention relates to improvements in hair pins and is directed moreparticularly to an improvement on the structure disclosed in Patent No.1,126,752 issued February 2, 1915.

An object of the present invention resides in the provision of a hairpin embodying a pair of onter leg portions and a pair of centralcoperatng locking legs, constructed and arranged to 50 engage aplurality of strands of hair as to hold the pin firmly in position andagainst loss or displacement.

With the above and other objects of similar nature in view, theinvention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement ofparts, set forth in and falling within the scope of the appended daim.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a hair pin constructed in accordancewith the inventien,

Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof, and

Fig. 3 is an enlarged section taken on the line 83 of Fig. 1.

Referring now more particularly to the accompanying drawing, my improvedhair pin is formed from a single strand of resilient vvire and consistsof the main or enter legs 5 Which are corrugated as at 6 at their innerends.

Between the legs 5 are provided a pair of Specification of LettcrsPatent.

Application filedJune 21, 1917.

Patented Oct. 21, 1919.

Serial No. 176,162.

When thus constructed, the legs 7, 7 are adapted, as the pin is insertedinto the hair in the usual manner, to pass on opposite sides of aplurality of strands of hair so that the latter Will enter the spaceformed between the humps 9. By thus disposing the hair between the legs7, 7 the latter Will co operate, as Will be readily understood inholding the pin firmly in position, it being impossible for the hair topass from between the legs 7, 7 nnless the pin is grasped andwithdravvn, so that possibility of' accidental loss or displacement ofthe pin Will loe precluded.

What I claim is:

A hair pin formed from a single piece of wire and comprising a pair ofenter leg por tiens and a pair of central coperating looking legs formedby doubling the central. portion 01? said Wire, said locking legs beingtwisted as to their inner ends and being bent betwcen their ends firstin divergent and then in convergent relation to provide oppositelydirected humps and being finally bent terminally in divergent relation.

In testimony whreOf, I afix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

DANIEL B. SHEFFIELD.

Witnesses:

E. H. CONYERS, Gr. B. Rnm.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Gommissoner or Patents, Washington, :0. G.

